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Minoring in Twitter: Minor Leaguers are sick of LeBron

By Danny Wild / MiLB.com

What’s the most inescapably draining, exhausting and never-ending sports story lately? No, not the World Cup — LeBron James, of course.

We here in New York have relative confidence that Carmelo will come back to our beloved, inept Knicks, but LeBron? ESPN’s speculation is about as accurate as a bunch of random Minor Leaguers on Twitter, and so you can guess what comes next:

Here’s how bad life is in the Minors — Riley Unroe, the Rays’ second-round pick in 2013 who received a $1 million signing bonus, is already sick of life in Princeton after 18 games. Just look at all those other half-dressed, tattooed men sitting around eating sandwiches. Ugh.

First, this is a pretty funny video. Second, I’m just going to assume that pizza in Florida isn’t any good. Third, I’m going to break the news here that Daniel Norris, the Blue Jays’ No. 3 prospect, will be joining us here on the PROSPECTive blog in the coming weeks to showcase some of his behind-the-scenes photos of life in the Minors. Maybe we’ll even see photos of him eating that pepperoni and pineapple pie:

Jeremy Barfield is good at tweeting, but it’s been more of a struggle on the field. A hitter, converted to a pitcher, and now converted back to a hitter, the A’s and Barfield hope he’s finally his path back to the bigs. Good luck, Jeremy!

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